Nick Saban's daughter disputes allegations about brawl

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) -- The daughter of University of Alabama football coach Nick Saban says a former sorority sister told her she needed to go the hospital after the two fought because she needed to "document" the incident for her previous lawsuit involving a car wreck.

Kristen Saban on Tuesday filed her response to a lawsuit by Sarah Grimes, denying that she caused serious injuries to Grimes during their August 2010 confrontation.

Shortly after the two women clashed, Saban said that Grimes sat on top of her and said she needed to go to the hospital "to document this" for her car wreck case.

Grimes said she needed to "go get checked out to make sure this hasn't made my head injury worse," Saban's lawyers stated in their response to Grimes' lawsuit.

Grimes filed a lawsuit in Florida over a 2005 car wreck, claiming that she suffered a concussion and migraine headaches as a result of the crash, Saban's lawyers wrote. The injuries she claimed to have suffered in the car wreck are "essentially the same injuries for which she now complains against the defendant."

Grimes contends the coach's daughter punched her repeatedly in the head, grabbed her neck and pulled her hair, leaving her bloody, swollen and bruised. Grimes said in her lawsuit that she was hurt so badly she suffered a concussion, an increase in migraine headaches, had nasal surgery and required psychological help.

Saban denies that she did anything to cause those types of injuries.

A lawyer for Grimes, Stephen Strickland, declined to comment Wednesday.

Saban and Grimes, of Pensacola, Fla., were both members of Phi Mu sorority.